An Offense to Storytelling

Rating: 1/10 (31 October 2013)

We are told, through a horribly done voice-over, that monsters, known as Kaiju, rose from the sea. To fight them the world used all of it's natural resources to build giant robots, known as Jaegers. These robots need two pilots who are, what is called, drift compatible. After losing his twin brother and co-pilot, the narrator and main character must prepare to get back into battle before the war is lost.
This is one of the most terribly written screenplays, with absolute pathetic attempts at acting, to ever be put to the big screen. This makes Transformers: Dark Of The Moon seem like an epic masterpiece. This is storytelling at it's laziest. For director Guillermo del Toro, this is embarrassing! This is the guy who directed Cronos, The Devil's Backbone and Pan's Labyrinth. Even having his name attached to such horrible horror films as Don't Be Afraid of the Dark and Mama, he did not direct the films, so we assumed he still rocked as a director. In his defense, he did not write the screenplay.
Pacific Rim, with it's big special effects and gimmicks, will be a favorite amongst males under the age of 14 until the next big monster movie is released.